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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room

Post Subject: The organic strawberry vs. organic acoustic treatment?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/26/2010

Romy the Cat wrote:
Tomorrow a cleaning lady will de-dust and clean the house and the acoustic treatment will go to the walls.

I figure out that it is time and put some acoustic treatment on the walls and at some spot of ceiling. The 2” pyramids in white, 24” by 24” look very nice; in fact they almost work like abstract yuppie-ornamentation popular in some Manhattan lofts - not exactly my style but I care less. All together I put 11 sheets of the foam over the entire room and removed all fiberglass traps. I left only 8 ACS fiberglass panel on the ridge of cathedral ceiling.
The result was as expected: the room becomes much quitter, sound got less zippy and with less harsh noise, the high amplitude of paling does not overload the room, I might run tweeters harder and the HF ringing on the room not there anymore. That all is fine and they all very positive moments, however I would not say that I this new the Sound all together. I have very difficult time to define what I do like. This new sound got some upper MF efforts in itself that I did not have before when the room was “live”. That effect of heavy laboring in upper range a bit annoying and also it makes wonderful and impressive audio but this is not the result that I am interested in. I very much like the control over HF but I would like do not prevent them to be as they are, I do not want to over manage them.

It is not that my room is over-damped now. I think it is OK balance as I cover very few spots with foam- 11 sheet of 24” by 24” is nothing for this room. Still, the contribution of the foam is very profound and not only positive. There is also a sense of artificial hyper-resolution that I very much do not like and it came with the use of foam. The fiberglass on tube traps gave me thin sound, foam gave me flawed resolution. Both are wrong in my view.

Surely it is too early to make any conclusion as I only started to play with it. In my old room the “acoustic treatment” was made stuck of record shelves – that worked phenomenally well and it was in a way a natural a natural treatment. Now I use artificial treatment that does not exist in nature. Might it be one of the reasons? If so, then will I have better sound if I order green panels?

Anyhow, I look forward to experiment more with acoustic treatment. The result I got now I find not acceptable.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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